russian greatness. >> it was the kind of pageantry which putin and russians in general loved.s riding very high. this was, you know, a moment of personal and national triumph from his point of view. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: the games were an announcement that the world needed to pay attention to russia and vladimir putin. (putin speaking russian) (cheers and applause) >> sochi was a huge moment for vladimir putin, and it was meant to be his validation and crowning moment of acceptance on the world stage as, you know, sort of the new russian tsar. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: but putin's moment of glory was tarnished by troubles just over russia's border: in ukraine. >> ukraine is stuck very much in the middle both geographically... >>> ...with the protests in neighboring ukraine, what is russian president... >> narrator: to putin, the crowds were a repudiation. the protesters demanded their government move away from russia and toward the west. coming in the midst of his olympics, putin saw something else. >> putin was sure that that was a real conspiracy to rai

the russians do.who you go to, the other organized crime group. >> there is something particular about the multiple bankruptcieb. unlike other real estate developers. he was squeezed off from the traditional sources of capital and real estate, the entire game is that you borrow money. you invest it. you hope to make money and get out. that's basically out. if you can't borrow money, you have a harder time. >> one of the most interesting things to the sale was the timing of it. it happened in 2008 when trump was going through essentially multiple bankruptcies. nobody would loan to him. this was a huge infusion of cash into his bank account, so, you know, when you look at the circumstances surrounding the sale and more questionable. >> can you imagine a world in which there is -- game out the possibility of some kind of indictments related to these offenses that don't relate back to the sort of core question about russian political. >> i would say highly likely. we know for certain the president is extr

and pressure on the russian media doesn't end there u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content that somehow link to the kremlin that would mean providers could decide for themselves whether or not to show such content and what's important to note here is that that belief yet to be approved or russia has promised a similar response from some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill is adopted journalist and writer neil clark believes the pressure on the russian media is because of his recent success. well this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now and it's a significant escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so success

leaks is claiming that the cia's created a computer program that impersonates the software of the russian antivirus companies kaspersky loved let's get more details on this story on correspondent david morgan kaleb good to see you what else then is in these revelations. well we've got a new batch of documents from the vault eight of wiki leaks this new batch of documents that's been released showing some of the internal workings of the cia particularly in relation to software now what was released is a program called a hive and essentially this is a major component of cia infrastructure and malware and it provides a covert communications about how the cia operates and what kind of software and malware that they're using now one thing that was revealed in these in these documents is that a century the cia had a program to imitate kaspersky laboratory now this is a huge popular russian software company and it's recently been subject to scandal u.s. authorities have actually banned. any government agencies from using kaspersky laboratories citing concerns about national security this happene

new york city russian bank branch. sam clovis is credited with bringing carter page on to the trump campaign and also credited with bringing on to the campaign george papadopoulos, who has now become quite famous for lying with the fbi about his contacts with russia during the trump campaign. in the plea agreement revealed by a judge on money, it was apparently sam clovis who was george papadopoulos's supervisor who told him he was doing great work when he initiated and maintained contact with russian sources. when george papadopoulos suggested that there be an off-the-record meeting between trump campaign personnel and russian officials up to and including people from putin's office, sam clovis is reportedly the campaign supervisor who encouraged george papadopoulos to take that trip. well, now we've learned that m clovis has not only spoken to investigators on the russia investigation, we've learned that he's also reportedly testified to the grand jury in the mueller investigation. now, this happened while sam clovis

about properties russians have bought, russian oilgarches.u go beyond the collusion thing, we'll flip out, we'll fire the special prosecutor, and there's something there they're sensitive about. i think if you're looking now at this investigation and it's clear mueller is looking at people with financial experience and money laundering and your top campaign guy got nabbed it's super worrisome. >> there's a lot of russian oilgarches in the global luxury real estate market around the world, buying lots of properties because it's a useful asset to park prept. how much do you think trump is a person selling and they're parking money there. how much do you have a sense that russian oilgarches that are doing that are in contact? >> i think what you said is correct. i think rugs love to buy property to park their cash abroad and to have a place to flee. in you're successful in russia, if you reach a certain level of success, then you have been blessed by the state. does that mean you must participate to get trump elected? not necessarily. it teams t

interference in the vote one example used to suppose that russian who's profile didn't fit a typical british political observer however the person posted or retreated nearly one hundred posts mentioning that the political and media scare mongering may have actually now how can effect as poorly boyko reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise them a government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story. london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and there could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is something at the bottom of it and i'm being very careful with

is simply giving the russian perspective on the news the way c.n.n. and the new york times gives an american perspective on the news and b.b.c. a british perspective of course american journalist don't think that when they think they're giving a universal truth they don't see that they are speaking from within their own national perspective so to call r.t. propaganda and sputnik is a joke in my opinion and worse than that is to lump them both of them in sputnik in archie with info wars i mean this shows you the quality of the mind to wrote that article it's delusional because in four wars is nowhere near journalism r t is a news channel and if you want to understand what's happening in the world you've got to look at the different perspectives from russia from iran from the u.s. from britain and take these all into consideration so to cold one russian television r t propaganda and to lump it in one in four words is just extraordinary and it really shows the depth of the despair i think that the people who are pushing the russia gate story are getting

russian federation in fact there is one culture that has one language the russian one their ease. like almost fun history. russia provide for this time a lot of a lot of assistance. the existence of transnistria is based on the old pillars of the soviet union the army a common language and a policy of dependency on. moscow pays for part of the pensions of transnistria and retirees which certainly doesn't harm their love for russia. many of them long for the good old days that. john as a grandmother is a typical example. moves. when you look at a hand for example you have five fingers with five fingers it's easier to take or carry something try doing the same with one finger. the soviet union was like a single powerful hand today it's different all that is gone. everyone pulls in his own direction everyone has his own household i don't like this. never going to happen again but many people of her generation see only disadvantages in the way things are now and advantages and the way things work and the soviet system of values is still hanging on. already i mean what i think i would

for manafort he was a client. >> the pro-russian candidate, was proteching russian language, church,iticians and regime, is advised by paul manafort, who was citizen of united states. >> he was one of the leaders of the uprising. he said everyone in the square was determined to stay there for as long as it took to hold their ground. yanukovich responded with force. he sent in the riot troops, the protesters responded with rocks and molotov cocktails. >> the protesters here put themselves in the center of a ring of fire and said they will hold this square, even if it costs them their lives. and cost them it did. around 100 were killed. i watched as the wounded were rushed to a make-shift hospital. not everyone could be saved. but where was paul manafort? we obtained his travel logs and confirmed them with a source of ukrainian border patrol, leaving just two weeks before his client, the ukrainian client ordered police to turn guns on the protesters. >> he didn't say anything. >> as people were being shot in the streets, i was here i saw their bodies manafort was -- >> he was year and

and people of the russian federation. to think about fulfilling our economic relations with the specific serious content. just look at the latest economic forum in st. petersburg. there was the greatest number of american companies there. >> cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is live in da nang for us. >> let's go live to jeff first. jeff, what else did the president say about that discussion that still the russians are disputing actually happened? >> reporter: good morning, victor and kristie. this is really a perfect metaphor for all of the confusion that has existed over this meeting really the last couple days in vietnam at this economic summit. would president trump and president putin actually meet. we're told they had a series of conversations very brief. about two or three conversations. one of which, the longest of which was about five minutes long. certainly not a formal bilateral meeting that most leaders have attending this summit. there is again a discrepancy whether they talked about election m

do they have a russian phone number, do they have a russian e-mail address. are they coming in from a russian i.p. have they ever logged in at any time from russia. there are some technical challenges with that. the trail sometimes goes cold at data centers where information is being processed. >> looking back at what the russians did during the election, when you're saying the russians paid for these ads, these are ads paid for by the russians because you've now gone back and checked groups like the research agency, the internet research agency and you now know that's a russian group. >> we also have banking information because folks are paying for these ads. we didn't link the ira accounts to advertising in the election but we found nine advertisers based on the signals that i talked about. largely it was russia today who we've since removed from advertise advertisers. >> i've always had some sense that in advertising you pretty much got what you paid for. mr. stretch, how much money did the russians spend on ads that we now look back as over disruptive or

russian professor in london named by some as mr me food and clearly related in some way or another to all the good that he pasko among others so the russian connection is there in addition to obviously the early and preceding information on the hacking by the russian military intelligence service the g.r.u. so we have in fact a kind of situation in which we have an on rolling piece of the russia connection continuing on we have great uncertainty about where this will go mr mole is running a very tight ship as we have seen we have some indication with. ana forte that he's moving up if you could put it this way the latter toward perhaps higher figures but no certainty with respect to that and i think a lot of attention this morning and yesterday was focused on this particular issue perhaps to the detriment of the legislative process melanie sloan i mean that certainly was a sucker punch wasn't i mean quite a day of drama wasn't it delivering first manifest in gates and then eventually a puppet office on the what do you make of how it was all delivered and what is being set up legally no

linked russian link this russian link that what is what is russian linked well. the big social media and tech c.e.o.'s facebook twitter google and others came to testify before the senate mccarthyite russia gate which on trials they did twitter defined russian linked for us i think it's sport pray tell tell us all if you have any any russian email account that is going to rule. out anything like that your russian agent your russian linked russian h i think there's an account on the from talk to you if you're on that for if you have a russian mobile phone you're criminy if you have a russian credit card you're a russian agent if you have ever once logged into social media from a russian ip address which means every western journalist in moscow and anyone who has ever visited russia and check their faces if you are a criminal if you have russia as your declared country or if you used to really. use a rare items of i mean almost every single night here and then two more points but if you i called to preach made mad to russian six months ago and claimed to report it

we got russian ambassador, russian banker, russian ex-con, military, russian lawyer, russian lobbyistssian money laundering suspect. russian billionaire son and connected academic, oil executive, russian foreign ministry official, russian president's fake niece and now new guy head of russia's fund. -- sovereign wealth fund. that's too big for a band. that's too big for a marching band in most towns. i mean, but there is one more thing to say about the russian sovereign wealth fund that met with eric prince during the transition. the russian direct investment fund, the fund he runs is one of many russian government institutions under u.s. sanctions. since russia invaded crimea in 2014, which means that no american business person, even eric prince, should be doing business with that fund. prince's explanation about that meeting in the seychelles is it had nothing to do with the trump transition. it was just business. it couldn't have been business with that guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund, at least it couldn't have been business if it was legal business. eric prince schedul

and a russian military intelligence veteran and a russian oligarch, and russian energy executives and also the russian deputy prime minister. and, of course, the russian ambassador. attorney general jeff sessions today upgraded his memory stick once again to declare to the house judiciary committee that despite his previous denials that he'd had any information about there being any russian contact by members of the trump campaign, he now does recall that he may have been aware about some of those contacts during the campaign. he insists that his evolving statements on these matters is all truthful. is all true. it's all innocent. he insists that he's consistently told the truth, even though his story has consistently changed. we don't know everything the trump campaign was doing with all of these russian contacts, while russia was interfering in the election to help trump win it. but after russia interfered to help trump win the election and then trump won the election, the trump administration has continued to behave toward russia in ways we don't have to speculate about. we don't h

russian lawmakers vote in favor of getting media register as foreign agents. in the united states. in response to washington's actions the self appointed global press freedom stay quiet on the treatment of. also ahead this hour u.s. officials from using bestselling russian security software on the alleged espionage threat but there's no evidence to suspicions. volunteers trying to help refugees are being considered. from the humanitarian aid. to the world this is r t international my names you not only a welcome to the program this hour's top story russian lawmakers have voted in favor of forcing media outlets to register as foreign agents it's in response to similar pressure placed on r.t. america in the united states. has been following developments for us just bring us up to spec about what a fact that these amendments could have. didn't hi well we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justice that demanded that r.t. america register as a foreign agent in the us the russian government promised to fight back and we'r

phone number, are they on a russian mobile carrier, to the have a russian e-mail address, are they coming inen fm a russian ip and have the ever logged in and you'll see in retrospective work have a logged in at any time for russia. there are some technical challenges with that in the trail sometimes goes cold at data centers where information has been processed and we saw about -- >> looking back at the so-called russians and that did during the election when you are saying the russians paid for these ads these are ads paid for by the russians because you now have gone back and checked groups like the research agency, the internet research agency and you now know that is a russian grou- >> on the advertising side, we have additional data around making information because folks are paying for these ads. we didn't link the ira account to advertising in the election but what we did was found nine advertisers based on the signals i talked about and making information largely was russia today we have since removed as advertisers. >> let's see if we get their money's work. everyone has been in

athlete being only two points short of fulfilling the road map to continue to spend has seen russian officials make their feelings a very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. relevance to restart his book the mclaren report itself created a clash of opinions it was contested by the russians who claimed that the report lacks sufficient proof to be deemed it legitimate and water itself did speak out when they cleared ninety five out of the ninety six russian athletes accused of various doping allegations in the report their reason being yes you guessed it lack of evidence and hence their cases were closed the russian sports minister has said his disappointment to these two demands are obviously of a political nature we want dialogue not addict out however. has made it clear there is a doping problem and has since become one of only five european countries that have criminalized doping austria france italy and spain being the others president putin had a clear message on the issue in russia when he spoke out some of the main thing is that we have to

he denies the allegations and then now deleted tweet takei said russian bought. the allegations against him he attached a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over the backing of those on social media. he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian bots so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation is forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. the head of the world and he doping agency has admitted it's almost impossible to separate sport and politics craig read his comments follow

and pressure on russian media does not end there u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing that cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content somehow linked to the kremlin i mean the providers could decide for themselves whether to show such content or not though it is important to note the bill is yet to be approved russia has promised a similar response with some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill gets adopted journalist and writer neil clark believes the pressure on russian media is down to its recent successes. this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now and it's a signal from the escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america and around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so successful and i think i

from the russian af may have been tampered with as well . was due to the switch just a few months following the sochi olympics acting on the instructions of the on you see we handed over to elysium laboratory which is essentially under what is control so there were no complaints whatsoever on receiving those samples so the samples have been stored there for two with a. a years ago and only then did questions arise when the violence might have been opened or simply been doing with the samples he's been scratching or biting them there but. he also went on to call for the anti-doping system in the sports world to be improved overall adding that these suspicions really really do disturb him given that it's sort of mixing politics with the olympics and that really goes against what the games are meant to stand for absolutely jacqueline vega thanks for those details but sports not the only field where russia is under pressure it seems the u.s. justice department has ordered all to america to register as a foreign agent by monday if the broadcaster

twenty four hour news from the russian capital this is my name's union only a welcome to the program our top story lawmakers in russia's. parliament voted in favor of requiring media outlets which are funded from abroad to register as foreign agents it is in response to similar pressure placed on r.t. america in the united states with the details breaking it. first of all we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justice which forced r.t. america to register as a foreign agent in the us the russian government promised to fight back and we can see that it's happening but to make similar demands for foreign media in this country to register as foreign agents russia's own legislation required amendments and they have just been approved by the russian duma and now the draft bill will be moved on to the upper chamber of the russian parliament for a final vote the amendment has it that a media outlet may find itself on the list of foreign agents in russia if it receives money from foreign countries i.e. their governments intern

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army russian ideology and the russian world. me. most belarussians still accept the monopoly of their russian neighbors and of left to walk a fine line between solidarity and independence. but georgia was a different case. after the rose revolution it quickly developed into a pluralistic comparatively well functioning country. the tax system was simplified and the banking sector and public services modernized its cities were transformed. mikhail saakashvili the new president completely renovated the center of tbilisi. after the rez revolution foreign capital began to flow into the country it felt like a new era was coming people had a great visions that our country would become a new switzerland or singapore or that an economic miracle would happen. and a big boom really did start and things that were worth a million dollars now cost one hundred million apartments in tbilisi were more expensive than in moscow we had an enormous growth in our client base and hired new stuff and really good money. looking west away from putin's ru

are russian government to kremlin flatter me or putin who for the last time are these russian thereby it's so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this who is going to say i was yes george tech guy yes yes this was the man who years ago spoke against russia through l g b t policies ah ha who thinks like that nobody would have thought of that until you bring. it up and it's patently absurd and this also goes to this notion of how does this russian interference work is what more facebook ads does anybody ever stop and ask what is this mean who is believing this it is an example of our new law is an example of things changing slightly because given the russian hysteria he might have been entitle to think you might get some sympathy for accusing russian boats for doing this but that wasn't the case was it i

and we saw a lot of the evidence that russian hackers and russian advertisers were playing in our electionsto the right and the left, entangled in a very bitter war trying to really promote that. so the rnc maybe should have been a little more pro active, joy, you're right. but what about the fec and what about getting them to get a little bit more reactive and a little bit more proactive and trying to be, you know, prevent some of this? >> richard painter, a lot of democrats doing a lot of soul searching wishing the obama administration had been more aggressive trying to combat this. we have examples in other countries, richard, same thing happ happening. an aggressive attempt to hack into e-mails of the french, the candidates running for the president in france. hackers came after them, but the french were prepared, headline in the "new york times." we had finland and estonia attacked by the same exact kind of campaign. but the difference is, that in those countries and in germany and other places, both of the political parties came together and were very public about saying, we don't car

his bella russian is worse than his russian years ago so he needs two official languages. he's a course badly educated dictator the good it done it at the group where mullah brazil ejector. opposition is largely for britain in belarus. in the one nine hundred ninety s. just gave rich to it as a candidate for a new party but he didn't stand a chance. at that time he still hoped to supplant the old values with new ones. it was a vain hope that the. overwhelming majority of people in belarus support democratic principles our leadership only came to power with russia's help. he would be on the roads there has to be if he does what he wants and everyone else shuts up and accept that. if they object he removes them from the fi trough and a fast buck but the west doesn't understand that we're not a state based on law and order and that the way to becoming one has been blocked because we're not a country where the government is democratically elected and we were moving towards it but then we were stopped. in the daschle the will of the liquid a bottomless no problem. so at least r

but first, a look at the investigation alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. this week, executives testified before congress about the role their companies played in allowing russian misinformation to spread in the run-up to the presidential election. the questions revolved around how russian operatives were able to pose as americans and spread content through facebook, twitter and google onnish shoes such as immigration and race relations. and the first criminal charges into russia's role in the election. paul manafort, donald trump's former campaign chairman, was indicted for tax fraud and conspiracy against the united states. he and his business associate, rick gates, surrendered to authorities and for more on all of this, we turn to california congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. he joins us via skype from washington, d.c. congressman schiff, nice to hav. >> thank you. great to be with you. >> you were at the hearings this week, where facebooks of facebook, google and twitter all testified you their companies w

officials or any russian nationals? attorney general sessions replied, quote, i don't recall that. just last month during the attorney general's most recent appearance before the judiciary committee, senator lindsey graham asked him, quote, did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the russians? this time attorney general sessions replied quite carefully. he said, quote, i have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with russians to impact the campaign. but when i asked him to clarify his shifting explanations for his own interactions with russian ambassador, attorney general sections said that when he first -- general sections said that when he first heard of reports of, quote, continuing information between russians and the campaign, he was taken aback by this dramatic statement that i never heard before and knew nothing about. he said that, quote, a continuing exchange of information between trump's surrogates and i

the --l mueller is looking at russian influence. he's not just looking at it for criminal charges.lo he will produce a report, in al likelihood to congress on what he has found. even if there is no criminal charge, the white house could be looking at a fairly damning report. there is a lot of people in the trump administration with republican contacts and a lot of democrats. these types of scandals are like some that devour their own. it's expanding to include people like tony podesta and john podesta by extension. can they acquire those records? yes.an the question is was there influence by the russians over the trump campaign as well as the election? b if president trump has financial interests that were in the hands or could be influenced by russian figure, that will be a concern. we haven't seen any evidence like that, even in the second indictment that we saw, where you had a guilty plea, it was remarkably light, in terms of connections to trump or actually concrete steps that had been taken. there was a lot of interest express

five more russian police receive lifetime bans from the winter olympics as fears grow the whole of russia could be prevented from competing in the twenty eight games here the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chiefs. but the. claims it doesn't prove you want to. give them some time. and germany could be on track for the same coalition government that it had before september's elections three way talks with other parties collapsed last week. police in the french city of concern over a. crime more than a year after the closure of the notorious jungle. here police officers are more than fed up i cannot remember times when so many call came to me to say that they wanted to leave the police. global headlines every hour on the hour you're watching are to international live with me. thanks for joining us tonight five more russian athletes have been given lifetime bans from the winter olympics that brings the total number of disqualified athletes to nineteen the decision was made off the retesting doping samples from the twenty fourteen sochi games based on the findings of the repo

plan of money would you make of the russian plan or if it's just a plan to push russia to the front of everything that's happening in syria to manage what syria is just part of the big game that's happening in the middle east and on not only in the middle east for russia the main thing is to build an anti american coalition with iran and hopefully with turkey on the basis of this syrian campaign of course iran and russia are already kind of anti american russian military both by the poor and forces in syria russia outflanked nato but ultimate goal would be to part possibly pull turkey away from the united states and nato and of course syria is important because an asset is important for russia because he can guarantee that russia will retain military naval base on the syrian mediterranean coast and even more importantly and their base there so this is just part of it and russia is using what's happening right now in syria to promote its overall strategic intentions which are even much wider than the entire middle east sammael ramani. this plan it seems when you listen to both of the

the international olympic committee makes another ruling in the russian doping scandal banning four russian skeleton athletes for life. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital only care and good to have you with us. with the tide it now turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that a political solution can finally bring peace war torn syria has now got a real chance to stop the six year long civil war in the country that's the message from vladimir putin speaking at a summit in sochi attended by russia iran and turkey our correspondent in the trunk is there for is what have the leaders said. nagy hello again well we've seen the president's vladimir putin type aired on and has saw me at one big negotiating table smiling and looking quite determined the foreign ministers were there the heads of the military as well so there you have it we got to the point when i saw almost got completely erased from the map of syria and serious to biggest regional neighbors as well as russia whose air strikes were a really big

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the relations between russia and turkey haven't been easy in the last two years after turkey downed russian fighter jet in two thousand and fifteen while bilateral relations have been discussed in law who is today and like me who told journalists that he believes he can see there is these ties now almost fully restored all this fear is where the bilateral a copulation is now and to go in have been mentioned including nuclear russia's ross artem is behind an ambitious project twenty billion dollar project of constructive build a new nuclear power plant in southern part of turkey and today a turkish president added the gun has invited of ludmer putin to participate in the official launch of the construction there are putin didn't answer but we could we have been able to read on his face something that we could classify as yes. now the former first minister of scotland is our to talk show host with the first episode to stay so here's a quick preview then of what's in store on the alec summit show not just the street political show is about people and personalities of the day and find out somet

russian meddling this time regarding catalonia separatist movement which. many messages and many interventions that have occurred through social networks come from russian territory and they use the expression russian territory that does not necessarily mean that we have confirmed that it is the russian government the mainstream media seems convinced that russia may have destabilized the country however the spanish leader has said that he has no information about the russian government playing any role in this i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian government nothing the blame russia card has also been played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the us and tame industry star trek actor george takei was last week accused of behaving inappropriately with a male model in the early eighty's he denies the allegations in a now deleted tweet takei said russian bots were amplifying the allegations against him he attached a chart which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to wi

was aware of attempted russian hacking in u.s. voter registration databases in june two thousand and sixteen now. i was also involved in new revelations as were the cia and national security agency reports leaked to us media organizations sparked months of investigations and trumped denials a joint report by the f.b.i. cia and n.s.a. in january concluded russian president vladimir putin personally ordered a so-called influence campaign because the kremlin preferred trump in the white house instead of hillary clinton special investigator robert miller was assigned to look into relations between russia and trump and so far there's indicted two of trump's election campaign managers paul manifold and rick gates and charge a third person george papadopoulos the question scott they want to put you next is what's next in miller's investigation we've got these three men already indicted and charged who's next on the hit this. well robert mueller is very capable and he'll move step by step so let's first of all he will not bring new charge